Ep. 347: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XV

that seat has only one once. I think you might be right. Boy. That's a new stat we're gonna have to keep. That's a winner corner over there. This is a hot little women spot right here. Not Tommy. Steve is said that you told him you always win, but then Steve walked it back a couple episodes ago. So here's your chance to set the record straight. How often when you play trivia on lunch break are you winning? I've won three. It's pretty damn good. I've won three.

And how are you normally doing otherwise? Uh? In the top two or three? You know, I had one really bad week. That week with cam Man, I think I only got three right, but I don't know. I didn't pay attention to help any You know, hey, I don't look at who's behind me when I'm running. Now, what about your co workers that you play with her? They sharp, Uh, you know, we really don't play. In the last three

or four weeks, we don't really play anymore. I just kind of keep score along with myself and play along anybody's Maybe that's it. I don't know. And you had to quit going used to go to your local Tribua night. Yeah, but we had a we got a local kind of watering whole bar not far from the house as trivia night on Tuesday nights. I'm not going there anymore. Why not? That's just I don't know. It's just kind of like, uh, you know, you don't want to be that dude that's like, uh,

oh no, yeah, I don't want to. I mean maybe some people do. I don't want you. We don't have any experience like that. You know, I'll just shut up that Steve has really hyped you up, and like you're representing every listener who's ever thought they could come on this show and win. So no, pressure. But there's a lot of pressure because if you don't do well, I don't know if we'll have another listener back. A lot of pressure. Like I said, right before you turn that

machine on. Man, I'm a nice bird. It's under the surface. You'll see. Go ahead now if you're not familiar, this is a ten round quick show with questions from our four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking, and there is a prize. Media will donate five dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing now. In our last episode, I put a call out to help with compiling trivia stance, and our listeners answered in a big way.

We told you just send an email to trivia at the media dot com with the subject line suck it Spencer if you were willing to collect data from previous games of trivia. In the two days since that aired, we got five three emails with spencer can suck it as the subject like that's got it, Like psychologically, that's really gotta take a toll on a guy. Man through that every notification again and again and again. On Wednesday morning, from five am to eight am, we were averaging one

point six emails per minute with that subject line. So it was hot. So Steve's wish has been granted. We finally have a library of Meat Eater Trivia stats. Now I'm not going to drop them all right now, but we'll introduce a new stat each time we play. For today, we're going to reveal each player's winning percentage. As Steve requested, this is the amount of times that they've won Meat Eater Trivia tracked against the number of times they've played.

So here it is little. In first place is dustin half. Of course, he's played once in one once, so he's had a hundred percent. That's followed by Steve, who has won thirty six percent of the games that he's played, Brody at Janice at Clay at Seth and Chester and Care at eight percent. Now everyone else whose name I didn't say is at zero percent. Only this is gonna be the I'm doing. I do one complaint per show. Now, I don't know if this is today's complaint, and it

hasn't happened yet, I don't know. I might really be biting my tongue later, stop saying, Krian one. It was the April Fool's joke in which you gave her the answers, you gotta expunge her from the board. Okay, it's like the joke's over. She still gets to win. Whatever. Now, everyone else whose name I didn't say is it's er represent So Steve is leading the pack at thirty six percent of who's present right now, Yes, well of everybody though,

and Brodie's only a few percent points behind that. Jannice is right behind him. So it's tight. It's real tight, ready now. In a previous game of trivia, we had a question about the Mark Twain National Forest. After the answers were revealed, this happened next play the clip, Phil. The correct answer is Missouri. I know somebody that went to it. You know what I think? If I can name what town he was born and I get a point, you can tell us the name, but we will not

give you a point. What was it? Hannibal, Missouri? Hannibal. Now, About twenty folks wrote in to let me know that, despite Steve's confidence, Mark Twain was not born in Hannibal, Missouri. Wow, he spent a lot of time there. Maybe instead, he was born in Florida, Missouri, which is about forty miles from Hannibal where Mark Twain grew up, so he was born in Florida but raised in Hannibal because they didn't get a point. Also, on a previous show, we had

a question about the Daredevil fishing lure. In the follow up fact Deroyd I said that the Germans referred to the U. S. Marines as daredevil's because of their fierce fighting style. What they actually called them was toy fuel hound, which translates to devil dogs, not daredevil's. Getting that wrong showed me how many Marines we have listening to the show, which happens to be a lot. They atamirely wanted to correct that one. They were not referred to as daredevil's.

They were called devil dogs. Yeah, it's worse to be getting chased by a devil dog than a daredevil. I think there you go with that. We were on the game trivia Play the Drop, Phil, Look, I need to know what I stayed to win everything? How's saying just tend to win everything? Davon Suckers Question one. This would be multiple choice. The topic is woodsmanship. Like I interrupted real quick, Yeah, it's not to complain, Okay, it's not

the complaint. Uh, our new calendar, funked up old taxidermy, Um, you can come for the taxi, I mean to stay for the trivia because every month in the calendar there's baked in trivia. And when is that calendar coming out September? I feel like we're way ahead of the game this year. I'm teething it. I like it alright. Question one, this would be multiple choice in the topic is woodsmanship. Which of these is not a real boy Scouts badge? Hunting,

fishing conservation? We're cooking? Which of these is not a real boy Scouts badge? Hunting, fishing conservation, We're cooking? Three of our four verticals are a merit badge. You can earn one of them is not? No ship. Was anybody in this room a boy scout? See this is written for Tommy? It was not. It was not written for Tommy. Yanny, you were a boy scount. Do you guys feeling confident? Okay, you didn't write it cockily? Does somebody have an answer? Brad got quite grin on his face. He got a

big go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanni saying hunting, Steve saying hunting, Brad saying cooking, Tommy saying hunting, Brody saying hunting, Chester saying conservation, and cal saying hunting. The correct answer is hunting. Would you have, Tommy? Although there's no hunting badge, they do offer merit badges for

rifle shooting, shotgun shooting, archery, and mammal study. There are one d and thirty eight badges in total, and some of the weirdest are basketry, bugling, coin collecting, dentistry, fingerprinting, nuclear science, and plumbing dentistry. Did you boys earn any of those? Oh? Yeah, nuclear science, No, I didn't. Do you know the story of the kid they called the radioactive Boy Scout that was he got a Geiger counter and stuff and he was going around collecting uh, radioactive

materials and keeping his MAM's shed. It one becoming like a major case. I mean they hauled away his yard when they did the clean up. And he was the radio active Boy Scout because the atomic energy thing. I bet he was going around. He was going around antique shops getting the old style of thermometers, and he built up a huge collection of radioactive materials. Like I said, he'd ride around with a Geiger counter on his dashboard.

What was his ultimate goal there? I can't remember. I know the writer Ken Silverstein, I think wrote the piece called Radioactive Boy Scout and Harper's question to the topic is fishing. This next way question comes to was via Troy Allard. If you have a question and you think is right for meata to trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eater dot com. What is the colorful nickname biologists gave Lake Winnipeg's world famous wally? What?

What is the colorful nickname biologists gave Lake Winnipeg's world famous wally? You like that one? Chester? Anybody else's confidences? Chester is no? No? I know what my old man used to call him in Lake Erie. It's been generous with some hints lately. Brody's cut that ship. What's his hint? Was? My dad used to call him something in a different lake One more time? What is the colorful nickname biologists gave Lake Winnipeg's world famous Wally? Does everybody have an answer? No? No?

Keep the wall like questions coming? Does everyone knows Steve's board has suck it? Brodie's written back, I love it that his board says suck it. Brodie because I know I'm getting his head because you're in there, buddy. All right, does everybody now have an answer? Oh yeah, let's do it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanni saying Walter, Steve saying rainbow, Wally Brad without an answer, Tommy saying Wally, Gator, Brody saying yellow Pike, Chester saying green Backs, Cal saying

blue eyes. The correct answer is Greenbacks. Congratulations man. Winnipeg's Wally are famously emerald green thanks to the limestone substrate that fills the lake. If you want to see some Greenbacks get caught, then check out season two, episode three of The Canadian Angle on Meat Eaters YouTube channel, where Ja Siemens and Josh McFadden ice Fish Lake, Winnipeg. We are on too. Questions three. The topic is Explorers. Thomas Jefferson kept this mammal as a pet, which he received

from Lewis and Clark part way through their expedition. Say the question again. Thomas Jefferson kept this mammal as a pet which he received from Lewis and Clark part way through their expedition. Brad, how you feel about this one? He's doing a lot of writing again. Thomas Jefferson kept this mammal pet can you write it again? Brad down to bro which he received from Lewis and Clark part way through their expedition. I had about five trivia questions

written about Lewis and Clark. The other four all got covered on the last podcast, so I couldn't use them. Thankfully, you didn't go into this detail, so you saved me something for trivia. Does everybody have an answer? No? What if? What are you gonna do with Brad's answer is this is didn't actually happen. I will take the loss. Then, I was telling Chester before the show, I think this

might be a hard batch. We may need to establish a Shelby line for trivia because I was played with her before I come to the show, and it kind of helps me understand how difficult or easy the batches. And usually she does about half as well as the winner. And she got three of these right, so the winner today be expected to get six based on the Shelby barometer. Does everybody have an answer? Yeah, go ahead and reveal

your answers. We have Janice saying Antelope, Steve saying buffalo calf, Brad saying prairie dog, Tommy saying squirrel, Brodie saying badger, Chester saying raccoon, and Cal saying prairie dog. The correct answer is prairie dog. Everybody knows that company. The prairie dog was shipped with four magpies and a rough grouse, but only one magpie and the prairie dog survived the journey. Jefferson was reportedly delighted and entertained by the prairie dog,

which he had taxidermy after its death. The stuff prairie dog was eventually sold to P. T. Barnum, who kept it at his New York museum that burned down in eighteen six. In the calendar was the remaining magpie very fat. I don't eat everybody else. I don't know what happened to that one. Now, did you intimately know that story? Brad? They actually spent most of the day trying to catch catch one magpie. It's gonna be one prairie dog. And uh, that night they after they did catch one, they had

it for supper. Cis and Clark could have been much of a meal. But do you know how they caught him? Did they like at him out of the hole? They started digging them out at first, and that wasn't working, so then they had the men start bringing buckets of water and trying to flood them out. At the end of the day. That one period of the kids. We call that otter and huh did they come up looking

like an otter? Question for the topic is cooking. About sixty percent of people with this allergy developed it as an adult, making it the most common food allergy among adult Americans. About sixty percent of people with this allergy develop it as an adult, making it the most common food allergy among adult Americans. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Janice saying milk,

Steve saying what does that say? Da dairy, Brad saying peanut butter, Tommy saying nuts, Brody saying dairy chest, You're saying shellfish, and kel saying peanuts. We have a diverse group of answers. The correct answer is shellfish. That is bullshit. Of people aren't allerged to shell fish. Of people who developed the allergy got it as an adult. Know you said about sixty of people with this allergy develop it as an adult, making it the most common food allergy

among adult Americans. You know I got it wrong too. The most common. You're saying it's the most common food allergy among Americans. Adult American reads a sentence to me. Again. He's looking at the script. About sixty of people with this allergy develop it as an adult, making it the most common food allergy among adult Americans. Listen, dude, shellfish is not the most common. Is not. There's no way

that's the most common food allergy among adult Americans. You need to argue with the study that put out this thing. There's very so many varying levels of shellfish allergy. I'm allergic to shellfish allergy. I wrote nuts About seven point two million adults Americans have a shellfish allergy. That's followed by milk at four point seven million, peanuts at four point five million, tree nuts at three million, and finned

fish at two point two million. Scientists aren't sure why why shellfish allergies don't develop until adulthood, but suspect it has something to do with hormones and environmental triggers. Whatever. I guess that. I guess that one because I compare. I have that conversation very often with folks allergic to shellfish or finned fish or both, so you can eat shellfish correct. I can take any questions about chesters allergy Question five. The topic is conservation. We'll get a scoreboard

update after this. This next great question comes to us from Chris Ford. If you have a question you think is right for meata to trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eater dot com. The nineteen fifty nine Federal duck stamp is the only one in history that features a dog. What kind of dog is it? Nineteen? The nineteen fifty nine federal duck stamp is the only one in history that features a dog. What kind of dog was it? Now? I'm looking for a specific answer.

So if you thought the answer was dear, you wouldn't write dear. You would write white tail deer or mule deer. Well, that gives it away. It doesn't, Spenser, No, it does not. It's as simple as the most common allergy. At nine federal duck stamp is the only one in history that features a dog. What kind of dog is it? Does everybody have an answer? Yes? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Janice saying a Chesapeake Bay retriever, Steve saying a Chesapeake Bay, Brad saying a Cocker Spaniel, Tommy saying a black Lab, Brodie saying a Chesapeake Bay retriever. Chester, you're saying a Golden retriever, and Cal saying a black lab. The correct answer is black lab. So wow, this is I'm having a bad game. The Federal Duck Stamp Competition encourage artists that year to submit designs that featured a dog.

They wanted to emphasize the dog's role in retrieving wounded ducks and hoped it would get more hunters to use them. Phil hit us with a scoreboard update. We are halfway through the game of trivia alright. Tied for third place with one point each are Steve, Jane, Brody and Brad. And then in second place with two points, we have Chester and Tommy tied up, and in first place with three is Ryan Callahan, Cal going first first. This is by far and away not the first time I've been

ahead of everyone at this point. Choke later, It's not choking. I just think the next step instead of picking the easiest answer. You know what I mean, You're like, I'll show them missed a big part here. And you know, if you consider nineteen and what was going on, Yeah, exactly, pretty pretty simple. The hippies weren't here yet. Question six. The topic is hunting. Four states have the black bear as their official state mammal name one of them, and

I'll give you a hint. Two of these states border each other. Four states have the black bear as their official state mammal name one of them, and again two of these states are touching. Four states have the black bear as their official state mammal name, one of them. How are we doing? Is everybody have an answer? Not happy? Man? I have an answer. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have a young saying Maine, Steve saying Kentucky, Brad saying Wyoming, Tommy saying North Carolina, Brody saying Vermont, Chester saying Pennsylvania, and cal saying Oregon. The four states are Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, and West Virginia. So I think we went an afer there. Nobody got her pretty soon, there's not gonna be enough questions left to catch cow. New Mexico was the first to do it in nineteen sixty three, and Alabama was the latest to do it in two

thousand six. Besides those four states with black bears, California and Montana have grizzlies as their official state mammal. Was the teddy bearry incident? Was that in Alabama? Mississippi? Question seven, the topic is foraging. This next right question comes to us from Tyrrell Minor. If you have a question you think is right from Meatator trivia, you can send it to trivia at the meat eator dot com. The roots of this invasive plant were used is a coffee being

alternative by Confederate soldiers. The flavor was described as bitter with nutty notes and hints of sweet potato. The roots from this invasive plant were used as a coffee being alternative by Confederate soldiers. The flavor was described as bitter with nutty notes and hints of sweet potato. Steve, you had a pretty quick answer. You know this one. Feel if I get this right? Words that put me? If you're the obi one to get it right? What was

the category cooking? Again? The roots of this invasive plant were used as a coffee being alternative by Confederate soldiers. Does everybody have an answer? Yep? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have a nice saying chickory, Steve saying dandelion, saying bitter root, Tommy saying jin sing, Brodie sang freg Mighty's, Chester's saying wild mustard, and Cal saying chickory. The correct answer is dandelion or chickory. They did both. Oh you are shipping me well, I mean I got it right.

I can't give it to chicken. They used dandelion and chickery. I used to be obsessed, obsessed with the Civil War. Never ever have I heard of dandelion route being a substitute for coffee. Well, my kids, My kids have a bag of this stuff called Dandy Blend, and it's like kid coffee made out of dandelion route. Confederate soldiers referred to this as Lincoln's coffee, citing the President who cut

off their supply to the real stuff. Other coffee being alternatives these Southern soldiers used included acorns, asparagus, beech nuts, fig potato peels, and cigar butts. Oh that's a good one. Question A. We'll get a scoreboard update after this. The topic is biology. Now, this is a riddle that you need to solve. What'd you right for that last one there, Tommy, I wrote, Jenson, mhm again, the topic is biology and

you need to solve this riddle. A wood chuck's is blue, a bull frogs is green, a wall eyes is white, a barn owls is red, and an armadillo doesn't have it at all? What is it? Hit me again? A wood chuck's is blue, a bull frogs is green, a wall eyes is white, a barn owls is red, and an armadillo doesn't have it at all? What is it? Did you think of the spencer? Was this this some sort of old no saying? I thought of this? I love it? He was, you know, he's like he's thinking

of that, like something borrowed, something blue drink? Oh yeah, tell me that again. Uh. One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of week you know, formul formula one more time. A wood chucks is blue, a bull frog's is green, a walle eyes is white, a barn owls is red, and an armadilla doesn't have it at all? Does everybody have an answer? Where does this put me? Feel? I got it right. We'll have to wait for the scoreboard update after the question. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have a Janna saying tongue, See saying skin, Brad saying eye color, Tommy without an answer, Brody saying eye color, Chester saying tail, and Cal saying skin. Nobody got it right, but the correct answer is eyeshine wow. This is caused by a reflective membrane at the back of the eyes. Some of the animals that have no eyes shine at all include brown bats, feral hogs, and humans. And if you were wondering, according to the crypto community, the eye

shine for bigfoot, vampires and l chopicbra is red. Do you feel deceived a little bit? I think you'd have got if you I got a few more guesses. No, Phil head us with a scoreboard update, Uh tied for third place at one point. We have Brad and Brody in second place all tied up with two points. We have Chester, Yannis, Steve, and Tommy, and in first place

with four points is Ryan Callahan. So in order for anyone to beat Cal Uh, he'll have to get the next question wrong, and either Chester, Yannie, Steve or Tommy will have to get get him right. Question nine, the topic is public lands. What is the top cause of death in national parks. I'll give you a hinted is not vehicle related? Again? What is the top cause of death in national parks? And it has nothing to do with vehicles? Cal, how are you feeling uh lukewarm? And

who needs to catch him? Tommy, Tommy, Steve, Johnny and Chester. I'll have a chance to catch up. Does that tip Steve? No, No hyperthermia. There's no way it's hyperthermia. Cal, you have an answer. I got a bunch of answers like you. Wanted to be precise, Ve, just one expansive would probably be the Brody strategy. Again, what is the top cause of death in national parks? Does everybody have an answer? Let me write down this last word? How many words

you got? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanni saying drowning, Steve saying heart attack, Brad saying falling, Tommy saying heart attack, Brodie saying heart attack. Chess, you're saying heart attack. Cal saying allergic reaction. The correct answer is drowning. Did anyone get it? Were they counting heart

attacks in that? This is from a mortality study done by the National Parks Are drowning was overwhelmingly the top cause of death, followed by motor vehicle crashes, falls, natural causes, and suicide. The deadliest national park of the mall is North Cascades National Park in Washington, which has a death rate six times greater than Alaska's Dnali National Park, which is second place. Just so it means more outdoorsy type folks go to Dnali National Park. That's what it means

to everybody else is closer to their vehicle. North Cascades National Park is also one of the least visited national parks, and it was on the Trivia named two of the national parks and one of them was North that week. Just no, I wrote, Phil, give us a scoreboard update. Uh. Cal still in first place with four points, but Janice has three. So if Yanni gets the next one right and Cal gets it wrong, then we've got a tiebreaker. Question Tanny topic fishing. This next rat question comes to

us from John Schlessinger. If you have a question you think is right from mediator Trivia, you can send it to Trivia at the media dot com. Tankara is a fishing style that was invented four hundred years ago in the small mountain streams of What country. Tankara is a fishing style that was invented four hundred years that was invented four years ago in the small mountain streams of what country. I think the way I'm supposed to say

it is like ten kara like that. Don't start doing that doing what like they're putting a little Want to make sure that doesn't sound very Spanish to me? Does everybody have an answer? Tankara is a fishing style fishing in the small mountain that much. After all heard your fishing guide, I guess he doesn't like fishing. Forgot everything you new or didn't never know. I don't love tankara, Okay, no me neither. You don't need to love it. They don't want you, don't I don't want. You're putting a

big old crawler in. Everybody's done and reveal your answers. We have Yanni saying Japan, Steve saying Japan, Brad saying India, Tommy saying Japan, Brody's saying Japan, Chester saying Russia, Cal saying Japan is Japan gets his first victory. Congratulations Cal. Now we have been on a very cold streak of overtime. I've had the same overtime questions banked up. I think for like four straight episodes, let's do it still hasn't happened. The game's really changed, man, didn't There was a lot

of overtime. Oh no, it went overtime. I went huff one. It did, but that was like four games ago. We've been on a cold streak of no overtime. Now, Cal you're not familiar with this process. But what happens you're a final scorecard. You're the final scorecard. Well, I think you just mean you want you would like to know where you still if you throw that in within the general mix, Brad had one, Brody had to, Steve had

three along with Tommy. Yanni had four. Uh Chester also had to Yannice, you had four, So I beat Like, let's tell me agin who I beat? It doesn't matter. Spencer predicted that the winner here would have six. I feel great for your cow, but but it's pretty low winning score. Yeah, now, cow, What happens next is you get to pick where a five dollar donation goes. So

what's it gonna be? Because of the access issues that we have going on in the state here, I'm I'm in between in Public Land Water Association, which is a fantastic organ and Montana b h A for h Litania, ELK and public land issues. So I'm gonna go with Montana b h A. Montana chapter at b h A. There we go. I don't think they've gotten a meat either. Five donation yet it's good on you. Yeah, you know we don't don't hire people from Montana in this office.

Understand how we're missing that out? That's it. Brad and Tommy, Thanks for playing. Tommy, you think you represented the listeners? Well? Should we invite more back? Steve didn't be me? We end up neck and next. I think we're all right. Brad and Tommy, thanks for playing. Join us next time. The only game show where Conservation to